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Ancient Greek for Everyone: A New Digital Resource for Beginning Greek Units 3 part 2: Feminine Nouns Classical Reading 2013 edition Wilfred E. Major

Ancient Greek for Everyone This class – Unit 3 part 2 Classical reading. – Be able to: read the sentences aloud parse each verb and noun (with article where it appears) translate the sentences into English.

Ancient Greek for Everyone All the sentences here come from Classical Athenian Greek writings from the fifth and fourth centuries BC. They are unchanged, except where … indicates a short omission. There are brief introductions the first time that an author is quoted and information that provides context for the quotation. At the bottom of each slide are vocabulary entries and notes. These supply vocabulary and information for any words that have not yet appeared in the required vocabulary.

Ancient Greek for Everyone Euripides’ tragedy Phoenician Women is an epic-length version of the house of Oedipus, focusing primarily on the battle between Oedipus’ two sons, Polynices and Eteocles. Eteocles has forced his brother from power and exiled him. Polynices raises an army to attack his brother and regain power. As part of negotiations between the two, their mother Jocasta cites a proverb: αἱ δ’ ἐλπίδες βόσκουσι φυγάδας Euripides Phoenician Women 396 βόσκουσι (3 rd pl) feed, nourish δ’ and φυγας –άδος ὁ exile

Ancient Greek for Everyone Euripides wrote many turbulent tragedies and is reported to have lived a comparably turbulent life. During his career, he seems to have generated controversy with his plays, an artist both captivating and disturbing. Reportedly, Euripides left his native Athens in his last years and took up residence with the king of Macedon, Archelaus. Whether this is true or not is impossible to determine now, but he did write a tragedy about Archelaus’ mythological ancestors which seems to favor the monarch’s genealogy. This play was about the heroic exploits of a grandson of Hercules, also named Archelaus.

Ancient Greek for Everyone In a fragment of Euripides’ play about Archelaus, someone is asking for help, to which he asks why he is needed. The other person explains that: ἐλπίδας δίδως. Euripides Archelaus fr. 231

Ancient Greek for Everyone This is from an ancient collection of curious and bizarre information. One section explains how a certain people in Illyria get salt. From a specific mountain spring, they collect a lot of water which they cover during the day, and: …τὰς δὲ νύκτας εἰς τὴν αἰθρίαν τιθέασι. Aristotle 844b14 εἰς (+ acc.) into, in αἰθρίαν (acc sg) ἡ open air δέ and